| If you or a loved one has been diagnosed with | | | | Even so, there are predictions based upon the |
| breast cancer it is devastating news. It is important | | | | staging of breast cancer. The typical survival rate is |
| to know that your breast cancer survival rate can be | | | | presented in the table below: |
| determined by what stage your breast cancer is in. | | | | |
| With the scientific advances today in the medical field | | | | Stage -- > Five Year Average Survival Rate |
| a breast cancer diagnosis is not as dire as in the past. | | | | 0 --> 100% |
| There are various factors that may affect the | | | | 1 --> 100% |
| chance of surviving breast cancer. | | | | 11A --> 92% |
| The stage the cancer is in is the primary | | | | 11B --> 81% |
| determination of your breast cancer survival rate. | | | | 111A --> 67% |
| Stages range from zero to four. The earliest stage | | | | 111B --> 54% |
| of cancer is stage zero. Your breast cancer survival | | | | IV --> 20% |
| rate is greater if your cancer is detected in the early | | | | |
| stages. | | | | This table is based upon date from the American |
| Most breast cancer survival rates are based on five | | | | Cancer Society and does not take into consideration |
| years post diagnosis. Breast cancer survival rates are | | | | individuals who die of other conditions. The survival |
| improving all the time. Researchers make new | | | | rate decreases for each stage after seven years. |
| discoveries all the time. Currently the use of | | | | But, it is important to know that these are averages |
| biomarkers may be a useful indicator it finding cancer | | | | and that even women with breast cancer in the |
| in very early states for those with a high risk of | | | | advanced stages can live much longer than seven |
| contracting the disease. Other factor that may affect | | | | years. |
| the survival rate is the age of the patient. Women | | | | Through research alternative treatments are being |
| forty years and older have a little bit better chance | | | | discovered all the time. There are studies that are |
| of survival than younger women. There are different | | | | looking at the effectiveness of the use of aspirin to |
| types of cancer that can affect the survival rate. | | | | improve the survival rates of women. A study by |
| Some cancers require more aggressive therapies and | | | | Harvard Medical School showed a fifty percent |
| are more dangerous while others have more positive | | | | improvement of the survival rates of women who |
| prognosis and better survival rates. | | | | took aspirin. It also showed a decreased risk of the |
| Hormones also may affect the rate of cancer | | | | cancer returning. The study did not determine exactly |
| growth. Hormone treatments are sometimes | | | | how or why aspirin reduces risks but it does confirm |
| indicated to help prevent cancer growth. With all the | | | | earlier studies. The success of aspirin may be due to |
| factors that may affect an individuals breast cancer | | | | its anti-inflammatory benefits pointing to realization |
| survival rate that generalized statements can be | | | | that cancer may be an inflammatory disease, or it |
| misleading. Your oncologist or physician is the person | | | | could be lowering the estrogen levels of the blood or |
| in the best position to give you your chance of | | | | be working an a completely different way. |
| survival. | | | | |